The Bank, Skylands Community Bank to merge

Fulton Financial corporation’s two New Jersey-based banks will merge, the Lancaster, Pa., based company said Wednesday.

The Bank, with 48 South Jersey branches and based in Mount Laurel Township, and the 27 office Skylands Community Bank, based in Chester, will merge into a single bank.

The merger is expected to be completed during the fourth quarter of this year.

Following the merger, the combined bank will be known as “Fulton Bank of New Jersey.” Angela Snyder of West Deptford Township, president and CEO of The Bank, will become CEO of the combined bank. Steve Miller, president of Skylands Bank, will serve as president and chief operating officer.

The bank’s new name, “will enable customers who travel to more easily access all of our banking services throughout New Jersey and our ATMs in Pennsylvania and Delaware through our largest subsidiary, Fulton Bank,” said R. Scott Smith Jr., chairman and chief executive officer of Fulton Financial Corporation

Warner Knobe, a current director at The Bank, has been appointed chair of The Bank’s board of directors, succeeding Scott Kintzing, who retired from the company on July 26. Knobe and Snyder, who was recently named vice chair of The Bank’s board, will continue to serve in these roles for Fulton Bank of New Jersey once the two banks unite.

The Bank has branches in Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Mercer, Monmouth, Ocean and Salem counties. Skylands Community Bank has offices in Hunterdon, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset, Sussex and Warren counties. The combined assets of the two banks total approximately $3.5 billion.